It appears Roy Morgan may have resumed its weekly federal polling schedule, offering a new poll conducted last Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1522. This is consistent with its pre-election form and in contrast with its other two polls since the election, which had longer field work periods and bigger samples. The results, however, are much the same: Labor leads 57.5-42.5 on two-party preferred (56.5-43.5 when based on preference flows at the election rather than respondent allocation), in from 58-42 in last week’s result, from primary votes of Labor 36.5% (down one), Coalition 30.5% (down half) and Greens 12% (steady), although One Nation perks up two-and-a-half points to 8.5%.
Morgan: 57.5-42.5 to Labor (open thread)
Roy Morgan’s third poll since the election appears to portend a return to its usual weekly schedule.
Bizzcan
I simply can’t tolerate anyone questioning Christoper Pyne’s net contribution to Australian society. Not with self-disciplined parliamentary performances like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0fjg8PNPes
Not to mention his contribution to the comedic arts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-xvV9-9CuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ6aeWgL25c
nath, they had to ruin it with a sequel, didn’t they. Except we haven’t woken from that one yet, judging by the title.
Rex Douglas @ #398 Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 – 3:43 pm
Lol. 😆
So are Melania and Barron Trump ‘rats’? Because they live in New York City? 😐
“Nearly 500 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency have published a “Declaration of Dissent” opposing the actions of the current EPA head, Lee Zeldin, who is working to politicize the agency, ignore science, and spread misinformation.”
https://electrek.co/2025/07/01/hundreds-of-epa-employees-have-asked-their-boss-lee-zeldin-to-stop-lying/
Tony Burke: Kanye West is barred from Australia.
How on earth does a man who has presumably spent close to two decades earning over 200k a year have less than a million dollars in savings and assets?
Christopher Pyne is and always will be just a private school prefect smug twerp that only existed to bring that Ja’mie King energy to parliament, and Tim Wilson will eagerly be taking his place.
The thing I admire most about Zohran Mamdani is that he is refreshingly honest about the policies he intends to stand behind. Especially the attitude when challenged about the more dubious ones like “city-owned grocery stores”, “faster buses”, etc, he generally answers pretty freely “Well, if they don’t work, then I’m happy to change them. Life’s complicated, things happen, adjustments have to be made.”
I like that in politics.
Ashasays:
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 4:21 pm
The case has been brought by senior Liberal Colleen Harkin who sits on the committee with Mr Battin which approved the career-saving $1.55m loan to Mr Pesutto.
The loan was to allow him to repay his $2.3m debt to colleague Moira Deeming, avoid bankruptcy, and prevent a potentially damaging by-election in his seat of Hawthorn.
How on earth does a man who has presumably spent close to two decades earning over 200k a year have less than a million dollars in savings and assets?
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He put his house in his wife’s name. He probably has a lot in super too but that can’t be touched till he retires.
OC
That is really good to know. You have probably told us before, but are you part of a VPP with Amber?
Ashasays:
How on earth does a man who has presumably spent close to two decades earning over 200k a year have less than a million dollars in savings and assets?
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It’s expensive dining at Vue de Monde.
Kirsdarkesays:
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 4:21 pm
Christopher Pyne is and always will be just a private school prefect smug twerp that only existed to bring that Ja’mie King energy to parliament, and Tim Wilson will eagerly be taking his place.
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I’d rather have a drink with Pyne than you. At least I’d be guaranteed a laugh and an interesting conversation.
nath,
I saw a stage version of The Queen & I in Adelaide in 1995 (at Her Majesty’s Theatre!). In that version the royal family had been deported and lived in Salisbury North (poor suburb of Adelaide). William joined a gang.
nath @ #412 Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 – 4:08 pm
Come on, getting defensive about politicians isn’t your style. You’re better than that.
@nath
I’d rather rub my face with a cheese grater than spend any time close to you.
“Moira got her money, but that’s still not enough. They really do want to see Pesutto bankrupted and thrown out of parliament, then presumably stripped, tarred, feathered, frogmarched down Spring Street and then hanged.”
I wonder at what point Pesutto will resign from the party to run as an independent & counter-sue the party and Mora for extortion & blackmail over the various demands that have been made of him, while also saying that the LNP’s intervention on behalf of Moira means he has already paid the money owed and now it’s up to the Party & Moira to fight over it with his hands washed of the matter.
Ghost Of Whitlam @ #416 Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 – 4:46 pm
Unfortunately for Pesutto it looks like Moira’s mob are willing to do this until he’s either destitute or dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmpaClDlSw
Ghost of Whitlam,
He may not have thought of that yet. 🙂
There is little chance of Pesutto being destitute.
He clearly has arranged his affairs to protect his assets.
He just wants someone else to pay
If he is nominally bankrupt it would be unfortunate for him, but he will survive (the people making the claims know this too)
I’m just glad no one is mentioning “The King and I” – totally banned here.
”So are Melania and Barron Trump ‘rats’? Because they live in New York City? ”
And the President himself for that matter, New York born and bred. Or maybe he’s an honorary redneck…
Ericsays:
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 4:40 pm
nath,
I saw a stage version of The Queen & I in Adelaide in 1995 (at Her Majesty’s Theatre!). In that version the royal family had been deported and lived in Salisbury North (poor suburb of Adelaide). William joined a gang.
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🙂
Pyne was funny and that mischievous sparkle in his eye and taut buttocks spoke to me.
I think some may have missed the sarcasm in my earlier post.
Edit: Taut buttocks – lol. You’re making that up; nobody has ever seen him from behind.
This is the text i promised a night or two ago. Kilne’s podcast on Mamdani. Not a criticism, but good to reflect on the changing nature of politics and how ots messaged.
So I think you can cut politicians into these two categories. There are the politicians for whom you can identify a policy that stands for them immediately. “Build the wall”— that’s a policy, but it’s a metonym for Donald Trump. “Medicare for all” for Bernie Sanders. The Green New Deal for A.O.C.
Mamdani — he had four or five, right? It was: “Freeze the rent.” It was free buses. It was free day care. It was publicly owned grocery stores. All of these are actual policies, and they’re worth talking about, but they’re mimetic.
Hillary Clinton running against Bernie Sanders had 70 policies — but none that actually defined her.
I cannot give you the policy that stands for Kamala Harris. The same is true for Brad Lander and a bunch of the other people in this campaign.
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Which is not to say they didn’t have them. They had them.
Brad Lander had a depth of policy on his campaign website in this mayoral race that I only associate with presidential campaigns. It was so detailed, and a lot of them are great.
Brad Lander was my choice in the campaign. But I said, when I wrote this piece about him: There are politicians who communicate about policy, and there are politicians who use policy to communicate.
And you can lament that what modern media is doing is flattening down policy to this sort of bumper-sticker level of mimetic communication. And I kind of do lament it — but it’s also true.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/opinion/ezra-klein-show-chris-hayes.html
There was another ANAO audit report into navy procurement released last week, this time on the cost of sustainment (maintenance and upgrades) of the Canberra class LPDs. In warships, over their 30+ year lives, maintenance can cost more than the construction cost. Canberra class sustainment cost is on track to greatly exceed their build cost.
https://www.anao.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/Auditor-General_Report_2024-25_50.pdf
I realise most people don’t read these, but the details are illuminating. Its damning of BAE, the same company that has the Hunter frigate build contract and will probably get the SSN AUKUS build, if it ever happens.
S2.64
“the report concluded that the original decision to sole source
the TISSC to BAE was a valid mitigation for transition issues but ‘the poor performance by BAE [had] negated this decision.’
S2.65
“The report stated that Defence had not exercised its contractual rights and had instead stepped in to perform work on behalf of BAE.
80 It was also reported that in some instances, Defence had ‘provided cost relief for poor performance’ by allowing BAE to delay work that had not been completed on time until the ships’ next availability (irrespective of whether delays to that work were caused by Defence or BAE).”
Figure 4.1 shows that the Canberras have a higher defect rate than our 30 year old Anzacs.
This all happened back under the Liberals (2014-2019).
Why do we keep giving defence work to firms that fail?
Not much point spending 3.5% of GDP on defence if we can’t contract basic maintenance correctly.
I’m guessing the mayor was a Liberal?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/audit-details-shire-of-coolgardie-viability-concerns/105482862
Chief Executive if it’s a Shire?
Or is he the Admin head?
One for those who still believe the gas industry propaganda that we are facing an imminent gas shortage …
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/02/an-impending-gas-shortfall-in-eastern-australia-this-is-just-gas-market-groundhog-day
Of course, facts will make no difference to either Labor’s approval of more gas fields, or to the fossil fools here on PB who cheer them on.
Thanks Mostly Interested for sharing that.
Im willing to be that Klein thinks the next big slogan is “ABUNDANCE!”
Bean, the very next paragraph of the podcast.
Abundance has been a big deal — but it’s the word, and there’s all this stuff behind it. And that’s a much more complicated set of conversations.
Abundance has been a big deal hahahah. I actually guffawed thats too funny.
Another day, another litany of Russian crimes against Ukrainians:
“‘Tied to a motorcycle and dragged’ — Russia likely executed another Ukrainian POW, ombudsman says”
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-likely-executed-ukrainian-pow-in-new-war-crime-ukraines-ombudsman/
“At least 2 killed, 33 injured across Ukraine in Russian attacks over past day”
https://kyivindependent.com/at-least-2-killed-33-injured-across-ukraine-in-russian-attacks-over-past-day/
“Russia killed at least 273 Ukrainian POWs during full-scale war, prosecutors say”
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-killed-at-least-273-ukrainian-pows-during-full-scale-war-prosecutors-say-06-2025/
And the US chooses now to stop supplies of air defence missiles to Ukraine – while boasting how well those munitions have defended Israel:
“As Russia ramps up missile attacks, US halts promised air defense shipments to Ukraine, Politico reports”
https://kyivindependent.com/us-halts-promised-air-defense-shipments-to-ukraine-politico-reports/
Arseholes, these Americans.
This podcast is with Derek Thompson, the co-author with Ezra Klein of ‘Abundance’:
https://youtu.be/n7APaxrGEps?si=GiqWMz9hv2zPwVxs
I thought this was a good review of “Abundance” and its relevance to Australia:
https://insidestory.org.au/are-we-getting-in-our-own-way/
Bean @ #432 Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 – 6:06 pm
Like you could do any better. 😐
Your only talents are spite and snark.
Get back to me when you achieve something with your life, Bean.
Tesla has now applied its mass production expertise to manufacturing liveable Tiny Homes:
https://youtu.be/7zSyVnWMWQs?si=IaRwOIbgMVhIotlw
Yeah, it’s not like the Left ever deal in abstract shibboleths and catchphrases.
D&M
Yes I have been with Amber for 6 months
I have also converted the house to all electric and run a EV
So I get all my energy and car propulsion through Amber’s wheeling and dealing and ususally end up with a credit each month (but not in June when the bill was $50.) This month is also likely to be a bill because I haven’t been selling and keeping the battery fully charged for blackouts
But this financial boon is nothing compared to my smug self satisfaction
C@tmommasays:
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 6:15 pm
Tesla has now applied its mass production expertise to manufacturing liveable Tiny Homes:
https://youtu.be/7zSyVnWMWQs?si=IaRwOIbgMVhIotlw
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There actually made by a Chinese company Boxabl, which has made them for years. Tesla is just adding their brand name to it. I doubt they added much input though.
David Rowe

Guys, can anyone remember the name of the 1970s American show this spoofs? I thought Love Boat, but of course it is not that! Similar era but.
OC
Thanks for this!
Douglas and Milko presumably “Fantasy Island” starring Hervé Villechaize
New Liberal Senator Jess Collins being anti quotas for women in the Liberal Party becomes extremely explicable when you see the line describing Angus Taylor as her mentor.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/02/gender-balance-in-liberal-party-should-be-based-on-merit-not-quotas-says-new-senator-jess-collins-ntwnfb
@newy boy:
“I accept the former as a valid destination, if the reason is concern that the US would be under-resourced for its potential needs in Asia, as you suggest. However, I definitely do not accept Israel as a valid destination, if dangers in Asia are supposed to be the reason for the pause in aiding Ukraine’s desperate, legitimate self-defence against Russian invasion and occupation.
EDIT: I can see you’ve accommodated my point now in your post: “(That being said, they are clearly prioritising Israel over Ukraine. Australia should not kid itself in this regard either.)” I fully agree. This is what I am outraged over.”
Entirely agreed with you both. Not much we can do about US internal military decisions from here, but I hope Albo doesn’t let this kind of thing guide Australia to back off in our contributions to Ukraine.
Merci Omar C!
I think this meme speaks for itself.
@beguiledagainsays:
Great story, loved the photo. I think the name drop can be forgiven in the circumstances!
What has abundance achieved? what is abundance? I’d love to see an honest attempt at explaining what it is.